Another incredible read and a great addition to the Briar universe! Elle Kennedy has done it again by providing hilarious banter and great spice while still focusing on some hard hitting themes and character development! So many lovely cameos from beloved briar characters and their kids and a quick insight into a group chat with all the OG guys from both the off campus and briar u series really got me in the feels! Charlie was a great FMC and she complemented both Beckett and Will so well! Some cameos/mentions of a few more ‘next gen’ characters, so hoping this isn’t the last of the briar universe! This book was so bingeworthy and definitely worth a read! I’d recommend reading the first two books of the Campus Diaries series first, and ideally both the Off Campus and Briar U series first as well!

This is Elle Kennedy’s hottest book yet! 🥵

When I say that I was obsessed with this book, I mean I was OBSESSED. I couldn’t stop reading, and when I wasn’t reading, I couldn’t stop thinking about this book. It has put me in the biggest reading slump as I fear no book can come close to how good this one was. It exceeded all of my expectations (and they were high!) 🙈

In typical Elle Kennedy style, this is a college/hockey romance, but this time we have 3 main characters.. Will, Beckett and Charlie(Charlotte). I didn’t know how I’d feel about a throuple style story but I fell in love with all 3 of these characters, each of them having their own chapters and good, well developed backstories. The relationships between each of them (Will and Beckett, Beckett and Charlie, Charlie and Will) were so pure, and the way they all just understood each other was top tier 🫶🏻

The Charlie Method is a sweet and spicy, emotional rollercoaster that had me laughing, crying and blushing from start to finish 🩷

Can I also just mention the “Dad Chat” - I adored this! 🥺

Ratings:
Plot: 5/5 ⭐️
Spice: 5/5 🌶️

Tropes:
Why Choose (MFM) 👀
Hockey x STEM 🏒
Found Family 🤍
Secret Relationship 🤫
Sorority Girl 😇
Multiple POVs ✨

Thankyou to Netgalley and Elle Kennedy for sending me an arc of The Charlie Method, this review is my complete honest opinion.

I love elle kennedy as an author so i was excited to be given the chance to read this.
This book is MFM and follows Will,beck and charlie.
Charlie sees herself as a girl that has two versions of herself-one prim and proper as such and another who likes to be free and able to enjoy herself.
I found myself disliking Charlie-couldnt connect with her at all,id love blakes story though.
Dad chat was amazing.
Fan fiction wasnt needed at all.
The ending wasnt what i expected but it was one that suited them. This book just fell short for me,i prefered her other books but if you enjoy a why choose then this is perfect for you.
Thank you for giving me this chance to review The charlie method.

I’m a huge fan of Elle Kennedy’s books 😍. The Graham Effect and The Dixon Rule were two of my favourites books from last year, so I couldn’t wait for the third book.

If you’ve read the last two, do you remember Will and Becket? Two handsome hockey player that like to share a girl? Both of them are perfect boyfriend material!! 😍 This book is about them. And Charlie, a very special girl.

I love their her double life and the secret they keep together. Triple POV was great, it was amazing to read all their points of view and see how they really care for each other 🥹🫶.

I didn’t think I’d enjoy throuple book, but it turned out so well. Their personalities were perfect. Spicy scenes are 🔥😮‍💨🤭

2.5 ⭐️
I was super excited for this book, to be quite honest it was one of my most anticipated releases of the year, but for me it just fell flat.
I had fun in the first half but then the second half it just gets all a bit repetitive and lackluster. Will and Beckett as a duo were completely hyped up and i was so excited to see more of them *together* it was teased in the beginning the possibility of mm but then it just didn’t happen?
I also wasn’t overly a huge fan of Charlotte/Charlie - the car storyline was just a bit random and not really needed, and don’t even get me started on the fanfiction because what in gods name was that. I completely skimmed over them.
The spice was there but again, it just got a bit repetitive towards the end.
I loved Will and Beckett, however i would have loved to delve into them more, they seemed to be a bit glossed over when there could have been so much more there and their POVs were a bit bland and the relationship as a whole lacked depth. I felt i was more invested in Blake’s story than the main relationship 🥲
The second half just felt rushed and i’m disappointed because i am a massive fan of Elle and the Off Campus series it will always be a go to reread for me, but this one is definitely my least fave of the spin off series.

Thank you to Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group UK for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review

My first why choose book. I wasn’t sure what to expect. But it was fun! Beckett and Will have been my favourite characters from the beginning. So I was so excited for their story. They were as fun and as loveable as ever, and when they get protective? Hot.

I loved the dad chat. Getting cameos from our fave OG hockey guys was as entertaining as it always is.

This book probably could’ve been a little bit shorter. The fan fiction part probably wasn’t needed. I have to admit I still would’ve preferred it to be just a Beckett and Will story. Definitely different to what I’m used to reading. I don’t know how realistic it is, but I’m glad it ended happily.

This was my first time reading an MFM book, and I greatly enjoyed it! It’s no secret that I love Elle Kennedy and this series, and this book is just another hit 🤌🏻

It goes without saying that the spice in this book was WHEW. Like I knew it would be but damnnnnnn this book had me chugging water

The thing I loved the most about this book though was the emotional depth this book carried. Yes, this book was all about their romance and spice, but they each had their individual problems and showed true development at the end. I love Charlie, Will and Beckett so much 🥹

My only criticism is that things were a little too easy for them, which made it a little unrealistic. Like I wouldn’t have minded if Charlie’s parents made more of a fuss but I can see why the author wrote this book in that way.

I ADORED THIS BOOK!

I don’t think that anyone writes college romance like Elle Kennedy. She absolutely nails it every time! The plot, the banter, the spice!!

I loved Charlie, Beck and Will so much. They were so fun and I loved how their three very different personalities came together and created this little world for them that they shared. I love how their walls broke down and they shared not only smexy fun, but also pieces of themselves that they kept secret previously.

I loved the Dad Chat with the OG’s! It was very funny and I hope we get a Blake Logan book, next!

All the stars in the world!!!

I’ve set it before and I’ll say it again. The second generation series is so much better than the first generation and I will die on that hill.

This book was pure and utter perfection. It didn’t just reached my expectations. No, it exceeded them and gave me so many more things that I did not know I wanted.

RUN to read it guys

Elle Kennedy absolutely nails it! The way she blends steamy encounters with genuine emotional depth makes this book impossible to put down. You can’t help but root for these characters as they navigate their messy, complicated lives and sizzling chemistry. I devoured this book.

The fact that in book one the characters are very queerphobic and say that people in polyamorous relationships can't possibly have any intimacy with their partners makes the entire premise of this book laughable at best and a money grab at worse (as why choose romances are incredibly popular). I was looking forward to this series but unfortunately, I couldn't get past the poor representation of different types of relationships. Also, there is no need for these books to be as long as they are, 500+ pages for a contemporary college romance is too much. It's a shame as I did like the three characters when they appeared in previous books but the hypocrisy of it all was too much for me in this one.

Well. I’m not quite sure how to say this but this book just did not hit for me. I was so excited to read Beck and Will’s book because I absolutely loved both characters. And honestly that didn’t change in this book. The problem? Charlie. I found her SO boring and honestly did not feel like she had a strong connection with either of the guys. I also hated how she referred herself as 2 different people. I kind of get it but like it was not done in a believable way at all. I was honestly more interested in the side characters (especially Blake who I hope gets her own book). I feel like this could have been so much more than it was which makes me really sad. With that being said Beckett and Will and some of the other characters made it kind of worthwhile for me.

This is my first taste of Elle Kennedy’s books and wow she did not disappoint. The characters in this book were spectacular and so full of depth, this book contained some seriously spicy scenes, why have one guy when you could have two? This is a beautifully written unorthodox romance, explaining how 3 people navigate their relationship which is not the norm everyone is used to. I devoured this book, now I need to get every Elle Kennedy book!

Elle Kennedy wrote another hit. I always love coming back into her world of hockey. I think she knows so much about the sport that it shows in her work. This was another win from her. We have Charlie who is a women in stem and a sorority girl. She gives off that she I a perfectionist and has to get the best grades but she is actually hiding her true self. Then we have the guys, Will and Beckett. Each of them brought something different to Charlie. As always I love that found family is focuses on in the story. This was a solid end to the series.

Read if you like:
- sports romance
- women in stem
- mfm
- found family

I love this!! I didn't want to put it down! Each book in this series gets better and better. I will 1000% be recommending this to everyone. The characters were great, It was spicy, but didn't lack plot either. I tend to find that spice can be quite cringey and just feel unnecessary but not in Elle Kennedy's hockey romances. If someone saw it over my shoulder I wouldn't be embarrassed that they saw that like I do with many spicy books.

🌟 4.5/5
🌶️ 4/5

tropes:
✨ college sports romance (hockey)
✨ STEM girl
✨ MMF
✨ cinnamon roll hero
✨ found family

trigger warnings:
Recreational use of drugs, grief/loss, distant parent, adoption, mention of physical abuse, mention of cancer

Charlie has a double life, to the outside work she is Charlotte, perfect sorority girl in STEM, but under the darkness of night she is Charlie, a girl who has desires and lets loose.

She is also on the hunt for her biological family, after being adopted at birth, she’s finally signed up to an ancestry site to solve her curiosity about her Korean heritage.

Beckett is a lovable Aussie and a total flirt!! He projects this cheeky persona but he’s hiding a whole heart of pain. He’s not looking for love, just a good time. Oh Beckett, just you wait for Charlie!!

Will is a gentle sweetheart. He’s a congressman’s son and has to fit into that perfect persona.

The mix of these characters was perfect. The boys took care of Charlie so beautifully. She was fighting the fact that she would be shamed for enjoying both of them.

As the story evolved it really didn’t feel like a MMF spice fest, you could see they enjoyed each other’s company and reading as they fell for each other was so beautiful. Such good character depth and plot!! Elle Kennedy always does this so well 🤌🏼

This book had me giggling, the camaraderie between the hockey boys is so good!! But it also had me tearing up. A whole rollercoaster of emotions.

I honestly didn’t know how it would end, I didn’t know which avenue Elle would go down. I read in the author’s note at the end that two ending were written, I’m so curious to know what the other ending would be!! 🤔

Oh and The Dad Chat that was sprinkled throughout the book was giving all the nostalgia!! I loveeeee how we got to hear from some familiar faces! Made me want to reread the off campus and briar U series 🤭

I have loved this Campus Diaries series, can’t wait to see what Elle writes next ❤️

Sad to see the end of this series but I think this book ended it well.
Wasn’t sure how a ‘why choose’ was going to work out in this story but work out it did. I think having a background into the boys already from the previous books helped this along a little.
Being back at Briar and absorbed in the universe that all started with Garrett Graham is great. Especially loved Dad Chat and seeing more of our beloved characters from the previous collections.
I hope to be back in this universe soon with promises of a new series.

What I loved:
🏒 hockey romance
💕 MFM
👩🏻‍🔬 woman in STEM
🌶️ very spicy

If you’re looking for a way to heat up this winter, you’ll definitely want to give this book a read.

Elle Kennedy strikes again with this steamy college romance!

Another banger by Elle Kennedy, but is that really any surprise?! Gal can write anything, including this steamy yet emotionally-developed why choose.

She did a great job in making me love both Will and Beckett in equal measure. I usually always have a favourite, but I found it hard to pick between them… so, why choose right?! 🙃

I did find the ending slightly rushed. I think one of the character’s defining arcs was slipped into the last 15% and smoothed over a little too neatly.

I feel the first half was more heavily focused on Will’s POV and then the second half was more of Beckett’s POV and because of this we lost a little bit of insight into those characters in the parts of the book they weren’t equally represented. Mostly Will, if I’m being honest. The second half was where the relationship was more prominent and I feel his internal dialogue was lost.

I didn’t love the fanfic chapters. Kind of unnecessary.

But overall I really enjoyed this and, of course, am itching for the next book / series for whoever that might be (please be Blake 🤞)

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Charlie Method is the third book in Elle Kennedy’s most recent Campus Diaries series. Whilst this can be read and enjoyed as a standalone, readers of the prior books will get even more from it.

The Charlie Method brings back hockey players Will and Beckett giving them their own story whilst also introducing Charlie. Charlie is also a senior at Briar, where she’s the perfect sorority girl and STEM superstar. Behind this overachiever though is a girl who likes to let loose, race fast cars and chat to two anonymous hotties on a dating app. What are the chances that Lars and B, Charlotte’s new online friends are none other than her lab mate Will and the annoying Aussie Beckett from her other class? What are the chances indeed…

As with Kennedy’s other books this was a really fun and easy read. She has a way of crafting characters that you can’t help but root for. Each of whom have their own individual stories, backgrounds, issues and journeys to go through. I really liked Will and Beckett when they were side characters in the prior novels so it was great to see more of them, particularly the sides of Beckett hidden behind his flirty and chill persona. Charlie was a great FMC who had a lot going on and went through a great arc of her own.

I will say, however, that this one felt a little long when I was reading it. The other books are longer than your average contemporary romances but didn’t feel it in the same way. It’s not that I was bored, but more I felt there were things we could have lost that wouldn’t have impacted the overall story, but then maybe that’s just me.

As with Kennedy’s other novels you can expect some serious chemistry and tension that bubbles into quite the steamy moments. The characters are forced to confront and deal with the taboo nature of their relationship and explore the implications of what it means to be together.

I enjoyed this one, maybe not as much as the last one, but it was great to see Beckett and Will in their own book.